My OperaWaPo Funny
Friday, September 5, 2008 1:54:07 PM
In the District Weekly yesterday:
The D.C. delegation to the Democratic National Convention was 2,000 miles away in St. Paul, Minn., but that didn't stop some last-muinute campaign sniping from going on.
When I first read it, I saw St. Paul being 2,000 miles away from DC. As someone who grew up just south of Denver, 2,000 miles is the distance from the East coast to there. (1,000 miles gets you to St. Louis, approximately.) So the distance to St. Paul was obviously overstated.
Then the wife pointed out that the DC delegation should have been in Denver, not St. Paul. So if one unconfuses St. Paul with Denver, it all works out.
That's the nice things about newspapers compared with blogs: The big guys have editors to catch such errors.
The D.C. delegation to the Democratic National Convention was 2,000 miles away in St. Paul, Minn., but that didn't stop some last-muinute campaign sniping from going on.
When I first read it, I saw St. Paul being 2,000 miles away from DC. As someone who grew up just south of Denver, 2,000 miles is the distance from the East coast to there. (1,000 miles gets you to St. Louis, approximately.) So the distance to St. Paul was obviously overstated.
Then the wife pointed out that the DC delegation should have been in Denver, not St. Paul. So if one unconfuses St. Paul with Denver, it all works out.
That's the nice things about newspapers compared with blogs: The big guys have editors to catch such errors.
